Knitted fabric



Sept. 17, 1929.

.v. LOMBARDI 1,728,294

KNITTED FABRI C Original Filed June 15, 1925 INVENTOR Vmema/t Lam/bank} ATTORN Patented Sept. 17, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE VINCENT LOMBARDI, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK KNITTED FABRIC Original application filed .Tune 15, 1925, Serial No. 37,076. Divided and this application filed 1928. Serial No. 302,098.

August 25,

The present invention relates to knitted that one yarn is interlocked in a certain Wale of a second looped yarn it is meant that the first yarn in the specified wale is carried, as viewed from the front of the fabric, in front of the two lower ends of the loop in one row and behind the two upper ends of the loop in an adjacent row, as is explained more fully in my above mentioned patent. The resulting fabric is strong, durable, of

pleasing appearance, and presents a closely knit fabric with no dangling yarns which might be caught and broken. While it has been described as a multi-color fabric it will be apparent that the three yarns may be identical or have some individual characfabrics of the so-called interlock type in which each of three or more independent yarns is formed into loops in different portions of the fabric, while the other yarns in the looped portion of one yarn are inter-f locked between the wales of the looped yarn in a particular manner to produce an exceedingly strong and durable fabric. This is preferably accomplished by so manipulating the yarns that in each section of interknitted loops of one set of yarns, the unlooped portions of the other yarns will be interlocked in a difierent series of alternate wales. The principles underlying the interlocked fabric for two independent yarns are disclosed in my U. S. Patent No. 1,426,57 6 of August 22, 1922.

The present invention constitutes a division of my prior application Serial No. 37,076, filed June 15, 1925.

For a better understanding of this inven tion reference is made to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing which discloses one form of this invention embodied in a fabric having three independent yarns.

Referring to the drawing a fabric is disclosed embodying a set of black yarn strands 1, a set of white yarn strands 2, and a set of red yarn strands 3, which are so combined as to form a series of wales g to s inclusive,' 'the black yarn being looped in the wales, g, h, g, r, and s, the white yarn being looped in the wales i, y, la, and Z, and the red yarn being looped in the wales m, n, 0, and The white yarn is interlocked between the loops of black yarn in the wales h and 1*, while being carried entirely to the rear of 40 the loops is the adjacent wales g, g, and s, and the red yarn is interlocked between the loops forming the latter wales, while being carried entirely to the rear of the wales h and 1'. Similarly, the red yarn is interlocked in the Wales 13 and k of the white yarn and the black yarn interlocked in the wales and Z; and in like manner the black yarn is interlocked in the wales m and 0 of the red am and the white yarn is interlocked in t e wales n and 12. When it is stated teristic other than difference in color.

is also to be understood that the use of three independent yarns, represents merely a pre-- ferred embodiment and is not intended to be a limitation. The term yarn as employed herein is, of course, intended to include threads of any type regardless of the material of which the same are composed or the cross-sectional contour of the same. Since certain changes in the construction of the above fabric may be made without dearting from the scope of this invention, it

is intended that all matter contained in the above description shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A knitted fabric comprising a plurality f yarns each presenting in turn a looped ortion and an unlooped portion, the looped 2. A knitted fabric comprising a plurality ofvyarns each presenting in turn a looped ortion and an unlooped portion, the looped ortion of one set of strands of said yarn eing interknit in one section of the fabric,

' of yarns, each presenting in turn a looped portion and an unlooped portion, certain of said yarns being formed into a series of rows of interknitted loops in one section of the fabric, certain other of the yarns being formed into a series of rows of interknitted loops in another section, and certain further yarns being formed into a series of interknitted loops in a third section, un-

looped portions of said certain other of said yarns being interlocked in the first said section between the loops of adjacent rows in alternate wales thereof while being carried entirely to the rear of the loops in the remaining wales, and unlooped portions of said certain further of said yarns being interlocked in said first sections between the loops of adjacent rows in said remaining wales while being carried to the rear of the loopsin said alternate wales.

4. A knitted fabric comprising a plurality of yarns, each presenting in turn a looped portion and an unlooped portion, the looped portions of one set of strands of said yarn being interknit in one section of the fabric, the looped portions of a second set of strands being interknit in a second section,

' and the looped portions of a third set being interknit in a third section, an unlooped portion of each of said second set of strands being interlocked with the loops in said first section between a loop in one row and a loop in an adjacent row in certain of the wales thereof and being carried entirely to the rear of the loops in intermediate wales, and an unlooped portion of each of said third set of strands being interlocked in said first section between a loop in one row and a loop in an adjacent row in at least certain of said intermediate wales and being carried entirely to the rear of the loops in said certain wales, an unlooped portion of each of said third set of strands being interlocked in said second section between a loop in one row and a loop in an adjacent row in certain of the wales thereof and being carried entirely to the rear of the loops in intermediate wales, an unlooped ortion of each of said first set of strands being in-- terlocked in said second section between a loop in one row and a loop in an adjacent row in at least certain of said intermediate wales and being carried entirely to the rear of the loops in said certain wales, and an unlooped portion of each of said first set of in an adjacent row in certain of the wales thereof while being carried entirely to the rear of the loops in intermediate wales, and

an unlooped portion of each of said second set of strands being interlocked in said third section between a loop in one row and a loop in an adjacent row in at least certain of said intermediate wales. while being carried entirely to the rear of said certain wales. A

5. A knitted fabric comprising a plurality of yarns, each presenting in turn a looped portion and an unlooped portion, certain of said yarns being formed into a series of rows of interknitted loops in one section of the fabric, certain other of the yarns being formed into a series of rows of interknitted loops in another section, and certain further yarns being formed into a series of interknitted loops in a third section, unlooped portions of said certain other of said yarns being interlocked between the loops of adjacent rows in certain of the wales of the first said section while being carried entirely to the rear of the loops in certain other wales, and unlooped portions of said certain further yarns being interlocked between the loops of adjacent rows of loops of said certain of said yarns in at least one of said certain other wales while being carried to the rear of the loops in said certain wales, and unlooped portions of said certain of said yarns and of said certain further of said yarns being interwoven with the loops of said certain other of said yarns in like manner, and unlooped portions of said certain of said yarns and of said certain other of said yarns being likewise interwoven with the loops of said certain further of said yarns in like manner.

6. A mult-i-color interlock fabric comprising a plurality of yarns, each presenting in turn a looped portion and an unlooped portion, the looped portions of yarn of one color being interknit to form a series of loops in one section of the fabric, said loops determining the color of the front of the fabric on said section, the looped portions of yarns of each of a plurality of different colors being similarly interknit in a plurality of other sections, and the unlooped portions of each yarn beinglockingly interwoven at the rear of each section of the fabric having a color different from said latter yarn.

7 A knitted fabric comprising a plurality of yarns, each presenting in turn a looped portion and an unlooped portion, the looped portions of one set of strands of said yarn being interknit in one section of the fabric, the looped portions of a second set of strands being interknit in a second secrow and a loop in an adjacent row in certain of the wales thereof and being carried entirely to the rear of the loops in intermediate wales, and an unlooped portion of v each of said third set of strands being interlocked in said first section between a loop in one row and a loop in an adjacent row in said intermediate wales and being carried entirely to the rear of the loops in said certain wales, an unlooped portion of each of said third setof strands being interlocked in said second section between a loop in one row and a loop in an adjacent row in certain of the wales thereof and being carried entirely to the rear of the loops in intermediate wales, an unlooped portion of each of said first set of strands being interlocked in said second ,section between a loop in one row and a loop in an adjacent row in said intermediate wales and being carried entirely to the rear of the loops in said certain wales, and an unlooped portion of each of said first'set of strands being interlocked in said third section between a loop in one row and a loop in an adjacent row in certain of the wales thereof while being carried entirely to the rear of the loops in intermediate wales, and an unlooped portion of each of said second set of strands being interlocked in said third section between a loop in one row and a loop in an adjacent row in said intermediate wales while being carried entirely to the rear of said certain wales.

8. A knitted fabric comprising a plurality of yarns of different characteristics, each presenting in turn a looped portion and an unlooped portion one of said yarns being formed into a series of rows of interknitted. loops in a plurality of wales in one section of the fabric, a second of said yarns being formed into a series of rows of interknitted loops in a plurality of wales in a second section of the fabric, a third of said yarns being formed into a series of rows of interknitted loops in a plurality of wales in a third section of the fabric, said first yarn being interlocked in alternate Wales of said second and said third sections between the upper ends of the loop of one row and the lower ends of the loop in the next row in each alternate wale'while being carried entirely behind the loops of the remaining wales of said second and said third sections, said second yarn being similarly interlocked between the loops of those wales of said third section where the first yarn is not in terlocked, said second yarn being similarly interlocked in alternate wales of said first section, said third yarn being similarly interlocked between the loops of those wales of said first section when the second yarn is not interlocked, said third yarn also being similarly interlocked between the loops of those wales of said second section when said first yarn is not interlocked.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 22d day of August, 1928.

VINCENT LOMBARDI. 

